Papertrey Ink's 9th anniversary - Day 1 challenge

I created this clean, simple card for Papertrey Ink's 9th anniversary challenge-Day 1.  Stamp sets used are Turning a New Leaf  w/ coordinating dies, Notched Flower Dies and Funky Florals stamp set.  Funky Florals is a limited edition set PTI offered in 2012.  

I used my MISTI to line up the stamps on the die cut--MISTI makes this process so much easier for me and has made me lift my ban on purchasing stamps with tiny die cuts.

I chose the color combo of lemon tart, simply chartreuse, hibiscus burst and Raspberry Fizz because the colors are lovely.

Have a great day!

Beautiful Butterfly

 Poor lighting this evening (I've got to get another lamp!), but I was able to capture some of the gold shimmer on the butterfly.  I die cut a white butterfly and sprayed it with gold shimmer spray- it's a lovely look in person.

This Beautiful Butterflies (Papertrey Ink) stamp set and coordinating die set is, for lack of a better word, beautiful! 

 

Have a wonderful evening!

Aqua & Melon PTI Blog Hop: May 2014

 

 

 

My card looks orange but it's really more melon in person--terrible lighting today!  I used 2 shades of melon...stamped in a lighter melon and the card base is a darker papaya color.

 

 

 

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Have a great weekend!

Virginia's View challenge and Make it Monday #154

Since I've been playing around with watercolors for a week, I decided to play in the first Virginia's View challenge and since the card is sort of one layer (it's flat), I'm linking this up to Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday #154.

I could not capture the glittery accents on this card in a normal shot, so I included a close up of one of the leaves.  Like Erin Lincoln did in the MIM video, I stamped the sentiment and then embossed over it with clear embossing powder.

I used my watercolors to ink up my stamp--I had to do this a few times to get vibrant color--then smudged it after it dried a bit before I added some glitter with my Wink of Stella glitter brush.  I used regular, white cardstock and this technique worked well.

 

Speaking of watercolors...I use a cheap, $5 set of watercolors I found at Michael's and an old brush I've had forever.  I do have a couple of inexpensive watercolor brushes that are smaller.  You don't need expensive supplies to watercolor is my point.  I do have watercolor paper and like to use the thickest I can find.

 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Papertrey Ink's Make it Monday # 153

I love the water color look but it's so hard for me to do...I'm 100% sure I'm overthinking the process.    I gave it a go for this week's Make it Monday  to water color a background and heat emboss a sentiment. 

 

 Please forgive the less than stellar photo, my lighting is terrible this evening.

I wanted to add more detail to this card but the background turned out so pretty I didn't want to take away from it.  This is the 3rd panel I water colored...the first 2 are hideous. LOL

 

Thanks for dropping by my poor, neglected blog!

CFC 122: Out on a limb

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Happy Friday! 

 

This week you are challenged to create a clean and simple project that contains a tree or trees!  It's the perfect time of year to bust out your tree stamps.

 

I used my favorite Christmas Tree die (Papertrey Ink) to make this card.  I die cut the tree from copy paper and used it as a template to stamp the tree with my Hero Arts Stamp your Story stamp set I bought months ago and have never, ever used!  I can't remember the name of the stamp set but it's the one with the brushstrokes and paint splats.  I finished the card off with some snowflakes and sentiment from a Paper Smooches set.

 

 

Link up your project for a chance to win an awesome prize from Ellen Hutson!

 

 

Have a great day!

 

Moxie Fab Thanks

Good morning and welcome to my stop on the Moxie Fab Thanks blog hop! 

If you are hopping in order, you will have arrived here from the Lawn Fawn blog.

I made this card in honor of Cath Edvalson to say thank you for the years spent trend watching, posting the lovely Oh My Moxie Fab! inspiration pictures and for saying I was Moxie Fab a time or two. 

Cath, I wish you nothing but the best on the road you choose to travel...I hope you have a Moxie Fab adventure!

 There are literally hundreds of designers taking part in this farewell tribute to Cath, so grab a cup of something awesome and settle down in front of your computer. 

 Next up, is Betsy Veldman... who has more talent in her pinky toe than I could ever wish to have. :)  Enjoy!

CFC 119: Embossing

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This week's challenge is to emboss--dry or heat--and it's a 2 week challenge so you have tons of time to play!

 

 

I chose to heat emboss a die cut.  I smashed a versamark pad onto a piece of white cardstock, heat embossed it with silver embossing powder and then die cut my word...super simple!

 

The background of my card is a piece of pattern paper that I airbrushed with copics using a stencil--it was actually in my reject pile from another project and I'm happy I was able to use it because it turned out so pretty.

 

We have an awesome sponsor this challenge:

 

 

Thanks for stopping by and I can hardly wait to see all the embossed CAS projects!

Make it Monday #126 and Summer Card Camp 2

I used this week's color combo and modified sketch 3 from Summer Card Camp 2 with Papertrey Ink's Make it Monday challenge.  The 3D die cut sentiment technique was challenging for me, but I'm happy with my first effort.

So sorry for the grainy photo...still can't find my camera battery charger. Grrr.

Thanks for stopping by!

Summer Card Camp 2: Week 3

 

This card is for week 3, day 1...which was yesterday. 

 

 

This week's color combo is a tough one.  I used all the colors but added a color not on the list--the green leaves-- to make it work for me.  I did use one of the sketches this week but modified it a bit.  I stamped the flowers and then embossed them with glittery embossing powder. 

 

Made the banner by hand thanks to Jennifer McGuire's video yesterday and I think that excites me more than anything.  Sometimes it's the simple things that have the biggest impact.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

SUPPLIES:

Stamps:  Cutting Garden and For The Record (papertrey ink)

Paper:  Dark chocolate, white, kraft (papertrey ink).  The pool color is...aargh, I don't know! I found it in my folder of scraps.

Ink:  Dark Chocolate, Limeade ice (papertrey ink), Elegant Eggplant (SU)